[ale] Not valid block device error

[Dow Hurst]

Would you give us the info on the USB memory stick?  Brand, 
vendor, whatever you have.  This sounds like maybe a weird 
stick to me.  Your doing everything right AFAIK.  Have you 
used this device with a driver from the manufacturer on a 
Win based PC?  Just curious if it is proven functional at 
least one time.  Modules look right for having a mass 
storage device mountable via the USB subsystem.  By the way, 
is there a write protect switch on the device and have you 
flicked it to the off position yet?  Does the device 
advertise encryption properties?
Dow


Sunmeet Saluja wrote:
> Geoffrey-
>      usb-storage module is loaded.
> 
> Here's what lsmod returns:
> 
> [root at tazenda sunny]# /sbin/lsmod
> Module                  Size  Used by    Not tainted
> sg                     33924   0  (autoclean)
> udf                    88320   0  (autoclean)
> nls_iso8859-1           3488   0  (autoclean)
> nls_cp437               5120   0  (autoclean)
> vfat                   12092   0  (autoclean)
> fat                    36984   0  (autoclean) [vfat]
> usb-storage            69184   0
> cs46xx                 58184   2  (autoclean)
> ac97_codec             13248   0  (autoclean) [cs46xx]
> soundcore               6468   3  (autoclean) [cs46xx]
> mga                   102256  15
> agpgart                45152   3
> ide-cd                 32256   0  (autoclean)
> cdrom                  32128   0  (autoclean) [ide-cd]
> nfs                    75708   4  (autoclean)
> lockd                  56832   1  (autoclean) [nfs]
> sunrpc                 76916   1  (autoclean) [nfs lockd]
> autofs                 11844   1  (autoclean)
> 3c59x                  28552   1
> usb-uhci               24676   0  (unused)
> usbcore                73792   1  [usb-storage usb-uhci]
> ext3                   65984   1
> jbd                    47500   1  [ext3]
> aic7xxx               133248   2
> sd_mod                 12828   4
> scsi_mod              107548   6  [sg usb-storage aic7xxx sd_mod]
> 
> Thanks for your efforts.
> 
> Sunny
> 
> Geoffrey wrote:
> 
>> Sunmeet Saluja wrote:
>>
>>> fdisk /dev/sdc1 yeilds:
>>>
>>> [root at tazenda sunny]# /sbin/fdisk /dev/sdc1
>>>
>>> Unable to open /dev/sdc1
>>>
>>> fdisk /dev/sdc yeilds:
>>>
>>> [root at tazenda sunny]# /sbin/fdisk /dev/sdc
>>>
>>> Unable to read /dev/sdc
>>
>>
>>
>> You probably don't have the right modules loaded.  What does lsmod 
>> return?
>>
>> You should have minimally:
>>
>> usb-storage
>> usbcore
>> usb-uhci OR usb-ochi OR uhci
>>
>> try: modprobe usb-storage
>>
> 
> 

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